Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Symington had reached compacts with some of the tribes , allowing them 250 machines each , when the larger tribes took him to court to try to get more .
2 ‘ That made me six foot seven inches tall . ’
3 Make them both point nine five then .
4 Expect me some time this afternoon .
5 He phoned me this morning this morning and put and he 's alright .
6 Oh , I can pay cash , changed me some dollars right in the airport … ’
7 I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty .
8 And a pint of milk 's thirty eight pence I think it cost me two pound thirty eight up here .
9 And er one or two got caught up occasionally now and then so we did erm have to go underneath because I was earning too much to get a free one it cost me seven pounds ten and I 've got the receipt for it .
10 The League says Swindon 's football has earned them widespread admiration this season and Hoddle is a suitable and exciting choice .
11 Well I I 'd could n't really swear to anything of that description , but it was it was before the er er old age pensions came out because I remember my Grandmother lived with us and er I remember the first week that she drew her five shillings old age pension .
12 ‘ I would have had no objection to telling them the position , in all honesty we could have done that and I may give them advance warning next year . ’
13 And she said , Oh I 'll give them two biscuits each .
14 Drummond once told me that Radio 3 broadcasts to about 30 minority tastes , each of which is characterised by its intense dislike of the other 29 .
15 You told me next Wednesday next Tuesday .
16 The evangelist Leighton Ford , who told me this story some years ago , used it to illustrate the fear of many churches of the evangelist coming in and bringing all kinds of disturbing , unsavoury characters into the church .
17 I 've seen them three times this season so I know how tough it 's going to be . ’
18 Southend 's players flew off for a week 's break in Spain after a 2-1 win at Halifax which put them five points clear at the top of the Fourth Division .
19 A couple of determined tries from Gabriel , a solidly-built scrum-half , put them 10 points clear , before Finnie , with one conversion and three late penalties moved on to a personal total of 17 .
20 Fed up of seeing a box of if I collected those tins and put them Back door open or not ?
21 ‘ You put me one step clear of a chain gang , two miles over the line . ’
22 ‘ You put me one step clear of a chain gang , two miles over the line . ’
23 He said I 'll come up he said if it 's more than thirty pound Ange , he said you can give me some money next week .
24 ‘ If he has done you such injury this fellow must be held to account . ’
25 I told you that mother three months ago .
26 they do n't actually give you one p any more .
27 well I 'll give you dry ginger this time .
28 Wo n't you let me give you some money -just to tide you over ? ’
29 in Southampton and he said we can give you next day this , they wo n't , they wo n't enter into it , we can give you next day delivery but it takes ten or twenty days .
30 Because we know Italy so well , we can give you detailed information other tour operators simply ca n't .
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